easy jet comes to lyon!

easyjet already flies to london luton, but it seems that they will be starting flights to rome and madrid in the middle of february. Their inaugural flights are still quite expensive -- anywhere from 25 EUR to 60 EUR -- but if you look a few days beyond that, like on the 19th or 20th of February, one-way fares drop to 12 EUR! Of couse once you add in taxes and stuff the one-way fare comes out to about 30 or 40 EUR one way, but still that's pretty cheap!

Right now, Lyon is losing business to Marseille, Nice, and Geneva, which have become hubs for low-cost carriers like Ryanair and easyjet. But there's word that they will soon open up a new minimal service terminal catering to the low-cost airlines sometime this year ...

Since I have a friend from the Alliance Francaise studying in Madrid now and since I haven't been back to Rome and the Vatican since Dad's run-in with the calculator (!) I think it would be nice to jet off for the weekend, take in the scenery ... better than shutting myself in and studying all weekend. No, just kidding! But it's a shame to be here in Europe, and not being able to go places, travel.

Check out the fares and flights at the site below (this is not a paid endorsement ...)

http://www.easyjet.com/en/book/index.asp